Sushma appeal to fellow Indians

Next time you meet an African citizen, please shake hands and say “India loves you”, appealed India’s foreign affairs minister Sushma Swaraj, amid the controversy over attack on Africans in India. She also thanked home minister Rajnath Singh, Delhi’s Lieutenant-Governor Najeeb Jung and Delhi Police Commissioner Alok Verma for the initiative. Indian Vice-President Mohammed Hamid Ansari had said that the killing of a Congolese man by a group in New Delhi was “despicable” and that India “greatly value(s) its relationship with Africa. The tension in the relation comes as India is trying to shore up ties with Africa in the face of stiff competition from strategic rival China.